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Explaining Cooperation in Municipal Solid Waste Management

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Kelly Tiller
Paul Jakus

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As traditional methods of municipal solid waste management (MSWM) become increasingly expensive due to increased regulation, many local governments are considering cooperation as a waste management strategy. A theoretical model is used to specify a partial observability probability model in which the decision Tennessee counties made to form either a single-county solid waste region or a multi-county region. We find that, while economies of scale may be a factor in the consolidation decision, current and future levels of solid waste services are statistically more important.

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Paper provided by Utah State University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 2004-07.

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Date of creation: Mar 2004
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Keywords: regional cooperation; municipal solid waste; waste management; regionalization;

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